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Banksia foliolata (R.Br.) A.R.Mast & K.R.Thiele

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 20:68 (2007)
Conservation Code
Priority Four
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect or spreading, dense, non-lignotubeorus shrub, 1-2 m high. Fl. yellow-brown, Sep to Nov. Sandy soils. Rocky quartzitic slopes.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 18 August 2008
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Scientific Description

Shrubs, 2-3 m high; branchlets hairy. Leaves petiolate, alternate, 130-230 mm long, 10-20 mm wide, hairy; petiole 5-50 mm long; lamina flat, once divided, pinnately divided, divided to the midrib, with 10-35 lobes on each side, the margins recurved. Inflorescences tomentose (with matted or tangled, soft, woolly hairs) or villous (with soft, shaggy, weak and straight hairs), cream; innermost bracts 7-8 mm long, hairy. Perianth 17-20 mm long, hairy, all over, limb apex hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), without awns; pistil 20-24 mm long, curved, style glabrous. Follicles hairy, hirsute (with long, rough and coarse hairs), oblong, 11-14 mm long. Flowers in October or November. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL) or Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Priority Four (P4).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 19 January 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald, Southern Jarrah Forest.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Cranbrook, Gnowangerup, Plantagenet.